United Right (Poland)

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United Right
Zjednoczona Prawica
AbbreviationZP
LeaderJarosław Kaczyński
Founded11 July 2014; 7 years ago (2014-07-11)
IdeologyNational conservatism
Euroscepticism
Solidarism[1]
Statism[2][3][4]
Anti-Germanism[5][6][7]
Internal factions:
Right-wing populism
Liberal conservatism
Corporate solidarism
Agrarianism
Paternalistic conservatism[8][9][10]
Political positionRight-wing
Internal factions:
Centre-right to far-right
European Parliament groupEuropean Conservatives and Reformists
ColoursBlue
Sejm
227 / 460
Senate
47 / 100
European Parliament
27 / 52
Regional assemblies
235 / 552

The United Right (Polish: Zjednoczona Prawica) is a conservative political alliance in Poland.

Initially it was formed as a parliamentary group based on cooperation between Poland Together and United Poland. Its composition has changed several times since inception, but is currently a coalition between Law and Justice, the dominant party, and United Poland,[11][12][13][14] The Republicans, as well some more minor entities, alongside external support from Kukiz'15.[15]

History[]

Creation[]

The alliance was formed in 2014.[16]

Beginning in 2014, the alliance initially was in the form of a parliamentary club in the Sejm called Just Poland (alternatively translated as Fair Poland; Polish: Sprawiedliwa Polska) formed by politicians of Poland Together and United Poland. They then agreed to co-operate with the Law and Justice party (the Piast Faction were already incorporated with them) and joined Law and Justice's parliamentary club and electoral lists that same year, in time for the 2014 local elections and the 2015 parliamentary elections.

Ascent to power[]

The alliance has been in power since the 2015 elections. It has been opposed by the Civic Coalition, led by Civic Platform, since 2018.[17][18]

Throughout the parliamentary term the coalition expanded its absolute majority by crossers of the floor from Polish People's Party, Civic Platform, Modern and Kukiz'15. A major factor was when in 2017, Poland Together merged with individual centre-right orientated defectors from The Republican Association, Civic Platform, Liberty, Law and Justice, Christian National Union, Polish People's Party and Kukiz'15 to form the Agreement Party centred around the leadership of Jarosław Gowin.

In 2018, Free and Solidarity, a splinter group of Kukiz'15, joined the coalition.

After some internal disputes the alliance was renewed in 2019.

Internal disputes[]

In 2019 parliamentary election the alliance gained more votes, but due to appearance of the Confederation and The Left in Sejm and cooperation between the Civic Coalition, The Left, and the Polish Coalition in the Senate, it failed to gain more seats in Sejm and even lost their majority in the Senate.

In 2020 and 2021, the alliance has been affected by actions of rebelious MPs. It by itself was caused by results of 2019 parliamentary elections, when Law and Justice was reduced to 199 MPs and United Poland and Agreement increased their tallies to 18 MPs each. This led to notion that is enough for just some MPs in one of constituent parties (and not a whole party) to rebel and bring down the government. This has happened on several occasions, although never managing to dissolved the alliance itself.

The first such instances were during the preparations to 2020 presidential election. The Agreement Party did not support the Law and Justice proposal on postal voting in these elections.

A second crucial instance was when near-total abortion ban was drafted, which originally was brought by United Poland, but the Law and Justice and the Agreement party were initially sceptical about the notion.

The third major rift was during the proposed changes to animal rights' which proposed no animal breeding for fur production and energy policies which proposed speeding up the reduction of coal production and the sudden suspention of Ostrołęka power plant construction. The Law and Justice had proposed the opposite policies in their election manifestos, but due to pressure from leader of the party, Jarosław Kaczyński, and the European Commission, the policies were changed.[19][20]

Major reshuffling and loss of absolute majority in Sejm[]

On 20 June 2021, the reactivation of the congress of the Republicans took place. announced that some Agreement members will join the Republican association and restructure it into a party, and that the newly formed party will subsequently join the governing coalition as a full member. In response, the Law and Justice chairman Jarosław Kaczyński made a speech praising the new reformed party.[21]

After Jarosław Gowin's scepticism with the "Polish Deal" proposal (an economic recovery plan for countering the COVID-19 recession in Poland) and media law changes that would have affected a TVN24, Gowin was publicly removed from his position as deputy prime minister, resulting in realignment of the composition of the coalition.[22] As result, Adam Bielan's "Agreement rebels" new party joined the coalition as replacements. The remaining Kukiz '15 MP's led by Paweł Kukiz have declared their support for the coalition by signing an agreement without formally joining.[15]

After this, coalition lost its absolute majority in Sejm, which it enjoyed since 2015 parliamentary election.

Internal factions[]

Law and Justice is divided into many internal factions, but they can be grouped into three main blocks.[23][24][25][26][27]

Order of the Centre Agreement is unofficial name of the most influential, although not the most numerous fraction of PiS. Its leader is Jarosław Kaczyński, main members are Joachim Brudziński, Adam Lipiński and Mariusz Błaszczak. It's economically left wing[28] Second of PiS' groups is radical, religious and hard eurosceptic right-wing faction focused around Antoni Macierewicz, Beata Szydło and United Poland party of Zbigniew Ziobro. The faction stays in opposition to Mateusz Morawiecki, opts for radical reforms and is supported by Jacek Kurski and Tadeusz Rydzyk.

Third faction is christian democratic, republican and conservative liberal group focused around Mateusz Morawiecki, Łukasz Szumowski, Jacek Czaputowicz and Agreement of Jarosław Gowin. It is supported by Jarosław Kaczyński, but not by all Centre Agreement faction.

There is also small presidential faction of Andrzej Duda.

Composition[]

Current[]

Name Years Ideology Position Leader MPs Senators MEPs Sejmiks
Law and Justice 2014– National conservatism,
solidarism
Right-wing Jarosław Kaczyński
193 / 460
39 / 100
24 / 52
208 / 552
United Poland 2014– Solidarism, social conservatism Right-wing to far-right Zbigniew Ziobro
19 / 460
2 / 100
2 / 52
20 / 552
The Republicans 2021– Social conservatism, Conservative liberalism Right-wing Adam Bielan
8 / 460
0 / 100
1 / 52
3 / 552
Piast Faction 2014– Agrarianism, Christian democracy Centre-right to right-wing Zdzisław Podkański
0 / 460
0 / 100
0 / 52
1 / 552
Remaining Agreement politicians 2017– n/a n/a n/a
0 / 460
0 / 100
0 / 52
2 / 552
[a]
Independents (MP's and MEP's) 2020– n/a n/a Jadwiga Emilewicz
7 / 460
6 / 100
[b]
0 / 52
1 / 552
[c]
(president) 2015- n/a n/a Andrzej Duda n/a

External support[]

Name Years Ideology Position Leader MPs Senators MEPs Sejmiks
Kukiz'15[15] 2021– Social conservatism Big-tent right-wing Paweł Kukiz
4 / 460
0 / 100
0 / 52
0 / 552

Former[]

Name Years Ideology Position Leader
(at the time)
Reasons for leaving
Right Wing of the Republic 2015–2017 Political Catholicism, conservatism, anti-abortion movement Right-wing to far-right[29][30] Marek Jurek Political disagreement
Republican Party 2017–2019 Political Catholicism, republicanism Right-wing Marek Wróbel Party disbanded
Poland Together 2014–2017 Liberal conservatism Centre-right Jarosław Gowin Merged into new Agreement party
Free and Solidary 2018–2019 Solidarism, anti-communism Right-wing Kornel Morawiecki Disagreements over electoral lists and foreign policy towards Russia. Party disbanded in 2020.
Agreement 2017–2021[31] Liberal conservatism, economic liberalism Centre-right to right-wing Jarosław Gowin Political disagreement

See also[]

  • Fidesz-KDNP

Notes[]

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